The children danced, sang and drew pictures of their experiences.

''Some of them are still drawing about the tsunami, and some of them are drawing life as they remember it, and as they want it to be again,'' Clinton said in the fishing town of Weligama on Sri Lanka's battered southern coast. ''There was a lot of emotional damage here that's not visible to the eye. We don't want them to be suffering from this five or 10 years from now.'' More... Published: Tue Feb 22 07:58:27 EST 2005

''We will all be destroyed by the fight. Therefore, let's get together to safeguard the ceasefire and the ceasefire agreement and to achieve lasting peace in united Sri Lanka acceptable to all communities,'' he said.

Ranil accused the present government of not carrying forward the peace process started by his government and the situation was standstill at the point from where he left. Instead, there are some parties with vested interest, who like to go back to war but the reality is that the next war would be disastrous for the country. More... Published: Tue Feb 22 12:05:08 EST 2005

Tuesday was the third anniversary of the ceasefire between the two sides.

In Colombo, schoolchildren flocked to an exhibition of photographs chronicling the truce in a war that has killed over 64,000 people on both sides of the ethnic divide and displaced hundreds of thousands from their homes.

In the northern rebel stronghold of Kilinochchi, still stinging from this month's assassination of a senior guerrilla, Tiger political wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan accused Sri Lanka's military of mounting a clandestine war that has strained his patience. More... Published: Tue Feb 22 08:42:18 EST 2005